“I was the first nursing mother to take a bar exam in the state of New Jersey,” Warren told an audience at the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2011, in a video posted on the CHF website. When asked how Warren knows that, her campaign said: “Elizabeth was making a point about the very serious challenges she faced as a working mom — from taking an all-day bar exam when she was still breast-feeding, to finding work as a lawyer that would accommodate a mom with two small children.”

Winnie Comfort of the New Jersey Judiciary, which administers that state’s bar exam, said there’s no way to verify Warren’s claim. Comfort said women have been taking the New Jersey bar exam since 1895, but she’s not aware their nursing habits were ever tracked.

Many wonder why we Cherokees are so insistent on Elizabeth Warren coming clean about her false claims of Cherokee ancestry. This is not a political issue to us. We don’t care if Elizabeth Warren is a Democrat, Republican, or an Independent. We do care, though, if she goes around claiming to be Cherokee and has tried to benefit from that claim. Some people might not realize there are only three federally recognized Cherokee tribes in the United States, but there are more than 200 groups who fraudulently claim to be Cherokee tribes. While the federally recognized tribes have very specific criteria their members must meet in order to be enrolled or registered, there is no consistent criterion for membership into the fraudulent groups. Many members of these fraudulent groups base their claim of Cherokee ancestry on the same thing Ms. Warren bases hers on…family lore…

We have researched Ms. Warren’s ancestry in the line she claims to be Cherokee through, as well as researched the collateral lines connected to that family. There is absolutely no indication of her having anything other than Caucasian ancestors. Though Ms. Warren’s ancestors did move into the areas that later became Oklahoma, they arrived at the same time many other non-Indian families arrived – when the land was going to be opened up and they thought they could get free or cheap land from the Indians. Ms. Warren’s ancestors were not Cherokees and neither is she. We, as Cherokees, cannot allow Ms. Warren to continue on with her false claims. If we allow someone as high profile as her to get away with it, then everyone else will expect a free pass as well.

Warren’s camp insists that she’s done talking about this and so far voters have shrugged at the storyline, but it’s not over yet. Go read Michael Patrick Leahy’s attempt to sort through the timeline at Harvard Law on Warren’s hiring and when members of the faculty might have learned of her “minority” status. An interesting contrast: Robert Clark, the former dean of HLS, says he was told by members of his own family that he was part Choctaw but he never thought to claim that status professionally because he never verified it. Quote: “It was just family lore, and more importantly, I had no identification whatsoever with the Choctaw community.” Go figure that a law professor might insist on hard evidence before asserting a professional credential.

You know, if the mASSachussetts voters are collectively shrugging their shoulders over Warren’s lies, the sadistic side of me hopes that they DO vote for her over Scott Brown. I guess being liberal-socialist is more important that trustworthiness and being truthful.

One would think that after 3.5 god-awful years of SippyCup and all of the poisonous verbal diarrhead he’s been spewing from both ends, a demand for Honesty would be making a roaring comeback.

“It was just family lore, and more importantly, I had no identification whatsoever with the Choctaw community.” Go figure that a law professor might insist on hard evidence before asserting a professional credential.

Aw. Wish I hadn’t gone back over it. I was happy and now I’m sad. But there it is, in anti-aliased pixels … race is, in fact, a professional credential.

“You can’t do that during the exam.”
“What is this, the Trail of Tears? My papoose is full and hungry, and by the Great Spirit you shall never oppress us again!”
“I am ashamed to admit you are right. I am insensitive. Indeed I am racist.”
“You are a Republican. Now give me that test booklet.”

She graduated from Rutger’s New Jersey Law School. Also, she is the only Rutger’s Law graduate in the country that is a law porfessor who graduated from Rutgers except for the professor at Rutger’s law school.

Usually, Rutger law school graduates are good for representation in traffic court. They win about 50% of their cases.

When I saw “Cherokees Demand Truth for Elizabeth Warren” I thought she might have gotten some support. That it is a typo makes much more sense.

Warren’s camp insists that she’s done talking about this and so far voters have shrugged at the storyline, but it’s not over yet.

Voters have their own timeline. And it is not about her false claims of Cherokee blood. It is the overall question in how she used it. Did she get preferential hiring consideration based on the lie? What does the lie say about her character? In short it is less about Warren’s lies about her heritage but what she did with it.

I’m perfectly willing to believe that family lore led Warren to believe she was part Cherokee. Growing up in Oklahoma, she would hardly be unique in that regard. BUT you need more than family lore and high cheekbones to make the claim of being native American.

I’m still not getting why it’s such a big deal that she was the first nursing mother.
Not getting that at all…

OmahaConservative on May 30, 2012 at 6:10 PM

Because of the Republican War on Women. If you continue to harp on her dishonesty, it’s because you hate women. She is obviously as womanly as one can be because she nursed her baby during the bar exam and she did it before anyone else. She is ultra-woman. Ye who seek her downfall are attempting to suppress women and deny them their rights, forcing them to remain barefoot andpregnant (much like her Cherokee ancestors. Ye who persist in irrelevant attempts to clarify the extent and nature of her dishonesty are sexist pigs and oppressors of the fairer sex.

Cherokee Squaw Elizabeth Warren was a regular guest on the Dr. Phil Show 2003-2005 where she helped his viewers “grasp today’s financial realities”.

From a July 29, 2010 Blog Post by Dr. Phil:

As it turns out, Elizabeth is a good friend of mine and of the show, and is a good, down-to-earth Oklahoma native! She has worked with our viewers to help them grasp today’s financial realities and the options available to them. She is smart, hard working and connects in a very real way. I am such a fan, I even wrote the forward for one of her excellent books on financial survival, All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan. We are so like-minded!

Usually, Rutger law school graduates are good for representation in traffic court. They win about 50% of their cases.

patch on May 30, 2012 at 6:11 PM

Having graduated from the no. 3 law school and worked around the country, I can tell you that the top 10 students from almost any law school can wipe the floor with the bottom 20% of students from Harvard or any other top school.

Really? And you know this how? I can understand her mentioning all that she accomplished while the mother of two small children but why claim “first” or Bishop as it is known around here? And there are probably many women who worked all day at stressful jobs with small children whose husbands were gone.

I’m sorry, but how is that an accomplishment exactly? Nursing mothers do all sorts of things, including holding down full time jobs for months, the bar exam is just two or three days depending on your state. Now if she nursed her baby during the bar exam, that might be a first!

How big of a medal does this woman want–something like the ones Obutthead handed out at the WH this week? She acts like she’s the only mother who ever breast-fed their baby. I suppose her evidence for this feat comes from the same place as her proof of Cherokee heritage? So she couldn’t make other arrangements for that one day? Then again, you know those lefties gotta make sure they have plenty of experiences they can whine about to embellish their suffering.

Sherman1864 on May 30, 2012 at 9:25 PM
Really? And you know this how? I can understand her mentioning all that she accomplished while the mother of two small children but why claim “first” or Bishop as it is known around here? And there are probably many women who worked all day at stressful jobs with small children whose husbands were gone.
Cindy Munford on May 30, 2012 at 9:37 PM

Gee my working wife, who breast fed, and I did it the old fashioned way. We altered our schedules and got a babysitter
I’m waiting for this woman to pander next to handicapped, bisexual, minority women who came from broken homes and were abused as children. There is no limit to pandering by liberals.

Since she looks kinda sorta menopausal(I’m being kind here), maybe she could claim she still teaches in spite of suffering from pms. The Cherokee are upset because they use past harsh treatment from 150 years ago to get ahead today and get other freebies handed out by the feds. They are no better than the reverends and others who cling to the civil rights actions of the 60’s.

Elizabeth Warren is the epitome of a liberal. She will say anything at anytime with no regards for the truth to further her own best interests. This is exactly what has the world reeling when individuals put themselves above the best interests of those they have swore to represent. The sad part is she is preaching to the choir as those she is attempting to deceive are the same ones who are the most susceptible to her lies. Massachusetts, being the most liberal state in the country, has a record of choosing liars and deceivers to be their leaders. Kennedy, Kerry and Frank, the list goes on and on.

Good Lord, now she’s claiming membership in another minority group? Has she learned nothing from her Indian debacle? Why doesn’t she just play it safe, and run on her record. Oh wait, that wouldn’t be too safe. Never mind.